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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Who Needs the Girl Scouts: Sandwiches to Go Nuts About

IT’S
COOKIE TIME! I love to find fun, warm baking projects in the winter to help warm
the whole house up. On top of that, I was having a total sweet tooth moment. I looked in my
pantry and there it was…peanut butter!

As you know, now
is the time for those tempting and addicting Girl Scout cookies. My favorite cookies
were the peanut butter sandwich cookies (of course).

So I decided to give
myself a challenge. Why not try to make them both vegan and gluten-
free, so all my friends could enjoy them? And they turned out awesome!

They are
soft and chewy and quite decadent. These are super easy to make and a perfect way
to make a vegan/gluten intolerant friend very happy-- or just about anybody
happy. I recommend enjoying these with a nice big frosty glass of almond milk,
or your favorite milk.

VEGAN AND
GLUTEN-FREE PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH COOKIES

Makes about 12-15 cookies

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

1
cup creamy peanut butter

1
cup brown sugar

2
teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup oat flour (you can make this by pulsing oats in a food
processor till it’s more flour-like)

5.While mixing peanut butter
mixture, slowly add in flour mixture till crumbly. Then add in the water and
beat till combined. Do not overbeat the mixture.

6.Line sheet pans with either
silpat mats or parchment paper.

7.Roll dough into round balls,
about 1- 1 ½ tablespoon of dough each.

8.Then taking a fork, do a criss
cross pattern on top of each dough ball to flatten out and give it a neat
pattern.

9.Bake 8-10 minutes. Make sure to
not over bake these.

10.Once fully cooled, pipe or spread vegan peanut butter frosting on the bottom side of a cookie*

11.Then place another cookie, bottom side down on top of the frosting
to form the sandwich cookie.

12.ENJOY!

*For best results, I recommend only adding the
frosting right before you serve them. The unfrosted peanut butter cookies will
last for about a week in the refrigerator and about a month in the freezer. But
really, I don’t think they will ACTUALLY last that long without being gobbled
up.